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Full Idea
If mere consistency is our aim in achieving a coherent set of beliefs, then new evidence and experiments are irrelevant.
Gist of Idea
If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant
Source
Alvin I. Goldman (The Internalist Conception of Justification [1980], §VIII)
Book Ref
'Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism', ed/tr. Kornblith,Hilary [Blackwell 2001], p.57
A Reaction
An important reminder. What epistemic duty requires us to attend to anomalous observations, instead of sweeping them under the carpet?